Anxiety/Stress

Nesse RM Emotional Disorders in Evolutionary Perspective. British Journal of Medical Psychology 71:397-415, 1998.

Marks IM, Nesse RM: Fear and fitness: An evolutionary analysis of anxiety disorders. Ethology and Sociobiology 15:247-261, 1994.

Nesse RM: Natural selection and the elusiveness of happiness. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci; 359(1449):1333-47, 2004

Nesse RM. An evolutionary perspective on panic disorder and agoraphobia. Ethology and Sociobiology;8:73S-83S, 1987.

Nesse, RM: Natural selection and the regulation of defensive responses. [smoke detector principle] Evolution and Human Behavior, 26(1) 88-105, 2005.

Nesse RM: Natural selection and the elusiveness of happiness. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci; 359(1449):1333-47, 2004

Nesse RM, Cameron OG, Curtis GC, McCann DS, Huber-Smith MS: Adrenergic function in patients with panic anxiety. Archives of General Psychiatry, 41:771-776, 1984.

Nesse RM: Panic disorder: An evolutionary view. Psychiatric Annals, 18:8: 478-483, 1988.

Nesse RM Emotional Disorders in Evolutionary Perspective. British Journal of Medical Psychology 71:397-415, 1998.

Nesse RM, Bhatnagar S, Young, E: The evolutionary origins and functions of the stress response, The Encyclopedia of Stress, Second Edition, Academic Press, NY, 2007.

Nesse RM Proximate and evolutionary studies of stress and depression: Synergy at the Interface Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews,23 (7): 895-903, 1999.

Huber-smith MJ, Nesse R, Mazhar M, McCann DS. Evaluation of plasma 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol. Journal of Chromatography B: Biomedical Sciences and Applications;377:91-9, 1986.

Thyer BA, Nesse RM, Curtis GC, Cameron OG: Panic disorder: a test of the separation anxiety hypothesis. Behavioral Research Therapy , 24(2):209-211, 1986.

Nesse, RM: Evolutionary Psychology and Mental Health. Pages 903-937 in Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, Edited by David Buss, John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken , NJ, 2005.

Nesse RM, Klaas, R: Risk perception by patients with anxiety disorder. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 182:465-470, 1994.

Young EA, Abelson JL, Curtis GC, Nesse RM Childhood adversity and vulnerability to mood and anxiety disorders. Depression 5: 66-72, 1997.

Young EA, Nesse RM, Weder, Julius AS, Anxiety and cardiovascular reactivity in the Tecumseh population: Journal of Hypertension 16, 1727–1733, 1998.

Nesse RM, Young, E The evolutionary origins and functions of the stress response, The Encyclopedia of Stress, George Fink (Ed.), Academic Press, NY, 79-84, 2000. (see 2005 update)

Nesse, RM: The smoke detector principle: Natural selection and the regulation of defenses. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 935: 75-85, 2001.

Sen S, Villafuerte S, Nesse R, Stoltenberg SF, Hopcian J, Gleiberman L, Weder A, Burmeister M: Serotonin transporter and GABAA alpha 6 receptor variants are associated with neuroticism. Biol Psychiatry 55(3):244-9, 2004.

Nesse RM, Curtis GC, Brown GM, Rubin RT: Anxiety induced by flooding therapy for phobias does not elicit prolactin secretory response. Psychosomatic Medicine, 42:25-31, 1980.

Nesse RM, Carli T, Curtis GC, Kleinman PD: Pretreatment nausea in cancer chemotherapy: A conditioned response? Psychosomatic Medicine., 42:33-36, 1980.

Nesse RM, Curtis GC, Brown GM: Phobic anxiety does not affect plasma levels of thyroid stimulating hormone in man. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 7:69-74, 1982.